Recall Roundup: June 10, 2010

Here is today's list of food safety recalls, product withdrawals and allergy alerts. The live links will take you directly to the official recall notices and company news releases that contain detailed information for each recall and alert.

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United States & Canada

• Pet Food Safety Recall: The Procter & Gamble Company recalls specific lots of its Iams canned cat food in North America as a precautionary measure. Diagnostic testing indicated that the product may contain insufficient levels of thiamine (Vitamin B1), which is essential for cats. The recall encompasses all varieties of Iams ProActive Health canned Cat and Kitten Food (3 oz & 5.5 oz cans) bearing expiration dates of 09/2011 to 06/2012 on the bottom of the can. The recalled cat food was distributed throughout North America.

Europe

• Allergy Alert (Republic of Ireland): Tesco withdraws Tesco Fruit Loaf, 500g (all best before dates, all batch codes) because the glaze topping contains milk protein that is not declared on the package label. The recalled products were sold only in Tesco stores in the Republic of Ireland.
• Pet Food Safety Notification (EU #2010.0737): Too high molecular weight for chicken hydrolysates from Germany; distributed in Italy.
• Food Safety Notification (EU #2010.0738): Dithiocarbamates (pesticide) in broccoli from Spain; distributed in Estonia.
• Consumer Product Safety Notification (EU #2010.0739): Migration of formaldehyde and of melamine from melamine cooking spoon with hole from Thailand; distributed in Austria and Germany.
• Food Safety Notification (EU #2010.0740): Listeria monocytogenes in gouda cheese from Poland; distributed in the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia.
• Food Safety Notification (EU #2010.0741): Aliphatic hydrocarbons in dried raisins from Iran; distributed in the Czech Republic.
• Food Safety Notification (EU #2010.0742): Mercury in vacuum packed swordfish fillets from France; distributed in Italy.
• Food Safety Notification (EU #2010.0743): Omethoate and dimethoate (pesticides) in Granny Smith apples from Chile; distributed in Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden.
• Food Safety Notification (EU #2010.0744): Mould growth in green pesto from Italy; distributed in Denmark.
• Food Supplement Safety Notification (EU #2010.0745): Unauthorised use of colour E 127 - erythrosine in food supplement for men from the United States, via Estonia; distributed in Finland.
• Food Safety Notification (EU #2010.0746): Altered organoleptic characteristics (blue coloured) of mozzarella from Germany; distributed in Italy.
• Food Safety Notification (EU #2010.0747): Salmonella in minced beef from Denmark; distributed in Denmark and Germany.
• Food Supplement Safety Notification (EU #2010.0748): Unauthorised novel food ingredient Cnidium monnieri in food supplement from the Netherlands; distributed in Finland.
• Food Safety Notification (EU #2010.0749): BSE tests not conducted on over thirty month bovine meat from the United Kingdom; distributed in France and the United Kingdom.
• Food Supplement Safety Notification (EU #2010.0750): Unauthorised novel food ingredient epimedium in food supplement from the Netherlands; distributed in Finland.
• Food Supplement Safety Notification (EU #2010.0751): Unauthorised novel food ingredient Cnidium monnieri in food supplement from the Netherlands; distributed in Finland.

Some supermarket chains post recall notices on their web sites for the convenience of customers. To see whether a recalled food was carried by your favorite supermarket, follow the live link to the supermarket's recall web site.

• A&P
• Big Y® World Class Market®
  
• BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc.
  
• Bloom
  
• Brookshire's
  
• Costco Wholesale Corporation (US stores)
  
• Costco Wholesale Canada Ltd.
  
• EDEKA (Germany)
• Food City
  
• Food Lion
  
• Giant Food LLC
• Gros Cidac (Italy)
• Hannaford Brothers Co.
  
• Harris Teeter
  
• Harvey's Supermarket
  
• H-E-B
• The Kroger Company*
  
• Price Chopper
  
• Raley's
• Roundy's Supermarkets, Inc.
  
• Sainsbury's
  
• ShopRite
  
• Stop & Shop
• Sweetbay Supermarkets
• Target
  
• Top Food & Drug
• Tops Friendly Markets
  
• Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
  
• Wegmans
  
• Whole Foods Market
  
• WinCo Foods
• Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc.
  

*The Kroger umbrella encompasses numerous supermarket, marketplace and convenience store chains, listed on the Kroger corporate home page.